Blanch it, which is to say boil it for no longer three minutes. The general rule about steaming versus blanching is if it grows below the ground, steam it; if it grows above the ground, blanch or braise it. And no, boiling doesn't remove any more nutrients than steaming does./off topic.
Yes, you're right, if you want to stretch a point to the near breaking point. Those copyrighted files are not, however, the files the MPAA wanted. And it's not a big media line, it's the reality that in order to enforce the copyright on those files, especially in light of a federal warrant or indictment (regardless of how they might have been illegally obtained), you better have a rain coat less you end up smelling like a back alley for all of your pissing in the wind. Yeah, you might prevail--five or six years down the line.
I think if you read the article again, it's fairly clear these were the HD's from Dotcom's personal computers. The actual Megaupload servers are in Virginia in the US and a location in France. Unless he poached files from Megaupload and stored them on one of his personal HD's, there's no copyrighted material.
Bullseye! Can someone hand that guy an insightful mod?
That's exactly what's wrong with our schools (and to a lesser degree even universities). It's simply easier for teachers and educators to come up with cram tests, preferably multiple-choice so they can far easier check the right answers, than to think up some kind of realistic problem and then evaluate the students' solutions, which will invariably differ slightly from one to the next due to them having different, but probably equally valid, approaches. Hell, it might even expose that the teacher knows less of a subject than his student (which isn't as far fetched as it may seem, especially in a field like CS where new developments often render your knowledge obsolete in few years).
And I call bullsh*t.
Why is it always necessary to blame the teacher? How about the parents who never taught their sons and daughters the value of studying, the right way to study, and held them accountable for low grades? How about holding the parents accountable for not teaching their kids any other kinds of boundaries? Why should it be the person who has to look after 24 to 30 other kids of similar disposition, where efficiency of operation would dictate that two concerned parents enforcing standards will benefit the child greatly regardless of the quality of the teacher?
It's parents not paying attention to their own kids that leads to overwhelmed teachers that leads to grade inflation, that leads kids into university not knowing how to write or think. If a kid in college doesn't like their grade, they hammer on the professor to raise their grade, and if the professor doesn't cave, then they take it to the department chair or dean. Plagiarism or cheating? The standards for the professor to prove why they failed a student for cheating on a test or plagiarizing a paper are so high as to dissuade them for even trying to enforce accountability.
I find it sad but amusing that the same people who always lay the blame at the feet of teachers for lack of academic success are also the same people who vote to gut education budgets year after year. As in the business world, more money generally buys better talent. But despite having top notch educators who can teach students well, without the backup at home, it's almost all for naught.
And this doesn't even begin to address the problems with administrators in the education system, and educational mandates that are imposed at the building level but never supported.
Have you considered buying him a Mac? Best investment I ever made when it came to my parents' computing, and my dad is even an electrical engineer.
Funny. My dad was a mechanical engineer and you'd think he'd know. I've told him under pain of death that he is never to buy another computer without my input, and yes, it'll be a Mac. Every computer in my house is a Mac, except for the file server, and it's running Mint.
Tools are dangerous. If I want to cut my hand off with a chainsaw, I can. If I want to leave my PHP script open to XSS, I can.
True. But I think the biggest impediment to secure systems and code is what people like my 82 year old dad are going to do if you ask them to start making selections or decisions regarding how tight or loose they want access to the internet. He's going to get angry and tell me, like he always does when I have to clean viruses off his computer, "I just want to read my email!" And there's more people a lot younger than him that will respond the same way, only it'll be over free smilies, fonts or porn.
How was medieval surf different from renaissance surf or even baroque surf? Different tidal forces? Was it the ability to design the board art with the proper perspective? Or the emergence of a merchant class which would allow the mobility for former serfs to surf themselves?;)
If Obama (for some reason we blame NASA, but put the blame on your hero) didn't cut NASA we could be talking this as well. What I find a shame are those welfare scum who take money away from projects such as these because they refuse to work. The so called poor today are just lazy thugs.
Try paring down the Defense budget first and see how much money is there for NASA. The poor make a convenient target, especially for those with no compassion or concept of what creates poverty. But if you look at actual entitlements and Keynesian make-work projects, our defense industry tops the list.
The best thing that could happen to Android is an unlocked, pre-rooted phone. Either that or just an easier process to update firmware.
Rooting an Android phone is almost a no-brainer. There are several forums where even the noobiest of noobs can follow an instruction list and do it themselves. Updating firmware once a custom recovery app like Clockwork Mod is installed is also very easy (relatively; if you can install CWM, you can do just about everything else). I'm running ICS on my Galaxy S handset now. Seven months ago this phone had T-Mobile's bloatware version of 2.1. I wouldn't hesitate to root, unlock and install a new ROM on any new handset I buy in the future.
Except an MBA is more about finance than management. If you want to be a good manager, get a Psych degree. They teach more about human behavior than most management degrees.
That's a very broad and subjective interpretation of the law. Twitter's TOS is allowing Twitter the right to offer other's the ability to transmit, re-tweet, allow other's to quote, etc. It does not claim ownership of the tweets, just that if one uses Twitter to tweet the thoughts, photo, etc, other users within the system can use the Twitter UI to do the same. It's still Harris' intellectual property, as Harris did not grant Twitter the right to use it outside of Twitter, nor did Twitter request it. It's similar to a journalism shield law.
Of course the fact that the oil industry spends more money on grants to AGW proponents than they do on groups like Heartland Institute doesn't bother you at all.
Really? So if I oppose the Heartland Institute for being primarily funded by the oil industry and its cohorts, then I must be supporting Big Government.
Your new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
I am so sick of "the exploration of human identity" being the only question worth pursuing when discussing works of art. It seems like the only thing we expect of art is that it help us answer the question of what it means to be human, and it's not like anyone can articulate a straight answer to that question, except in that the art itself is its own irreducible answer.
Isn't that the entire point of art, that we see into it what we want to see into it, and it reflects that vision back to us? Sometimes it's clear what the artist intended; other times, not so much. I don't think that "art is its own irreducible answer." More like it's an opportunity for us to peer more deeply into things we might normally take for granted, or only see one way. That's the true beauty of art, and what makes it more democratic than people might think. One family might buy a mass-market print of a Monet water lily because they think it looks pretty. Someone else might buy a reproduction of a Warhol soup can because they think it makes them look hip or cultured or smart. Others collect art because it allows them to recall an experience or time they want to be reminded of. Art need not be complicated or abstruse, just personal. One can even say that something like Serrano's Piss Christ has value simply because it creates a reaction. It's never going to have the universal appeal of a Monet or Degas, but it does cause people to think and react, or not think and get angry. Either way, it brings out emotions.
It's a "tree falls in the forest" kind of question: its main purpose is to make the person asking it look smart; no answer is required.
There's a lot of Buddhist scholars who might take exception to your belief about the usefulness of a koan.
And just how would such a "law" be enforced anyhow?
Right now it's solely being enforced by the Law of Gravity. I'm afraid, despite how necessary DARPA's proposal is, that it will be subsequently governed by the Law of Diminishing Returns.
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Blanch it, which is to say boil it for no longer three minutes. The general rule about steaming versus blanching is if it grows below the ground, steam it; if it grows above the ground, blanch or braise it. And no, boiling doesn't remove any more nutrients than steaming does. /off topic.
Yes, you're right, if you want to stretch a point to the near breaking point. Those copyrighted files are not, however, the files the MPAA wanted. And it's not a big media line, it's the reality that in order to enforce the copyright on those files, especially in light of a federal warrant or indictment (regardless of how they might have been illegally obtained), you better have a rain coat less you end up smelling like a back alley for all of your pissing in the wind. Yeah, you might prevail--five or six years down the line.
I think if you read the article again, it's fairly clear these were the HD's from Dotcom's personal computers. The actual Megaupload servers are in Virginia in the US and a location in France. Unless he poached files from Megaupload and stored them on one of his personal HD's, there's no copyrighted material.
A digital orouboros.
GSM cell service is pretty well ubiquitous in developing nations. So much so that minutes have become currency.
Bullseye! Can someone hand that guy an insightful mod?
That's exactly what's wrong with our schools (and to a lesser degree even universities). It's simply easier for teachers and educators to come up with cram tests, preferably multiple-choice so they can far easier check the right answers, than to think up some kind of realistic problem and then evaluate the students' solutions, which will invariably differ slightly from one to the next due to them having different, but probably equally valid, approaches. Hell, it might even expose that the teacher knows less of a subject than his student (which isn't as far fetched as it may seem, especially in a field like CS where new developments often render your knowledge obsolete in few years).
And I call bullsh*t. Why is it always necessary to blame the teacher? How about the parents who never taught their sons and daughters the value of studying, the right way to study, and held them accountable for low grades? How about holding the parents accountable for not teaching their kids any other kinds of boundaries? Why should it be the person who has to look after 24 to 30 other kids of similar disposition, where efficiency of operation would dictate that two concerned parents enforcing standards will benefit the child greatly regardless of the quality of the teacher? It's parents not paying attention to their own kids that leads to overwhelmed teachers that leads to grade inflation, that leads kids into university not knowing how to write or think. If a kid in college doesn't like their grade, they hammer on the professor to raise their grade, and if the professor doesn't cave, then they take it to the department chair or dean. Plagiarism or cheating? The standards for the professor to prove why they failed a student for cheating on a test or plagiarizing a paper are so high as to dissuade them for even trying to enforce accountability. I find it sad but amusing that the same people who always lay the blame at the feet of teachers for lack of academic success are also the same people who vote to gut education budgets year after year. As in the business world, more money generally buys better talent. But despite having top notch educators who can teach students well, without the backup at home, it's almost all for naught. And this doesn't even begin to address the problems with administrators in the education system, and educational mandates that are imposed at the building level but never supported.
Have you considered buying him a Mac? Best investment I ever made when it came to my parents' computing, and my dad is even an electrical engineer.
Funny. My dad was a mechanical engineer and you'd think he'd know. I've told him under pain of death that he is never to buy another computer without my input, and yes, it'll be a Mac. Every computer in my house is a Mac, except for the file server, and it's running Mint.
Tools are dangerous. If I want to cut my hand off with a chainsaw, I can. If I want to leave my PHP script open to XSS, I can.
True. But I think the biggest impediment to secure systems and code is what people like my 82 year old dad are going to do if you ask them to start making selections or decisions regarding how tight or loose they want access to the internet. He's going to get angry and tell me, like he always does when I have to clean viruses off his computer, "I just want to read my email!" And there's more people a lot younger than him that will respond the same way, only it'll be over free smilies, fonts or porn.
Better solution: Give the control of ".bank" and ".insurance" to the IMF.
And then let the ABA and Financial Services Roundtable operate .theft, .fraud and .noretirement.
How was medieval surf different from renaissance surf or even baroque surf? Different tidal forces? Was it the ability to design the board art with the proper perspective? Or the emergence of a merchant class which would allow the mobility for former serfs to surf themselves? ;)
Hopefully, the only clothes he wore were ones that didn't need ironing.
Never worked in a company that employed developers, have you?
If Obama (for some reason we blame NASA, but put the blame on your hero) didn't cut NASA we could be talking this as well. What I find a shame are those welfare scum who take money away from projects such as these because they refuse to work. The so called poor today are just lazy thugs.
Try paring down the Defense budget first and see how much money is there for NASA. The poor make a convenient target, especially for those with no compassion or concept of what creates poverty. But if you look at actual entitlements and Keynesian make-work projects, our defense industry tops the list.
The tighter the fist squeezes, the more that slips through the fingers.
I say move the study to Utah and use Mormons as a control group.
The best thing that could happen to Android is an unlocked, pre-rooted phone. Either that or just an easier process to update firmware.
Rooting an Android phone is almost a no-brainer. There are several forums where even the noobiest of noobs can follow an instruction list and do it themselves. Updating firmware once a custom recovery app like Clockwork Mod is installed is also very easy (relatively; if you can install CWM, you can do just about everything else). I'm running ICS on my Galaxy S handset now. Seven months ago this phone had T-Mobile's bloatware version of 2.1. I wouldn't hesitate to root, unlock and install a new ROM on any new handset I buy in the future.
Social Astroturfing! What a concept.
Except an MBA is more about finance than management. If you want to be a good manager, get a Psych degree. They teach more about human behavior than most management degrees.
Then you weren't a teenage girl with a cell phone. My daughter averages 5200 a month .
That's a very broad and subjective interpretation of the law. Twitter's TOS is allowing Twitter the right to offer other's the ability to transmit, re-tweet, allow other's to quote, etc. It does not claim ownership of the tweets, just that if one uses Twitter to tweet the thoughts, photo, etc, other users within the system can use the Twitter UI to do the same. It's still Harris' intellectual property, as Harris did not grant Twitter the right to use it outside of Twitter, nor did Twitter request it. It's similar to a journalism shield law.
Of course the fact that the oil industry spends more money on grants to AGW proponents than they do on groups like Heartland Institute doesn't bother you at all.
Funny, but I don't recall saying anything of the kind. Unless, of course, you were trying to do this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man.
Really? So if I oppose the Heartland Institute for being primarily funded by the oil industry and its cohorts, then I must be supporting Big Government. Your new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
I am so sick of "the exploration of human identity" being the only question worth pursuing when discussing works of art. It seems like the only thing we expect of art is that it help us answer the question of what it means to be human, and it's not like anyone can articulate a straight answer to that question, except in that the art itself is its own irreducible answer.
Isn't that the entire point of art, that we see into it what we want to see into it, and it reflects that vision back to us? Sometimes it's clear what the artist intended; other times, not so much. I don't think that "art is its own irreducible answer." More like it's an opportunity for us to peer more deeply into things we might normally take for granted, or only see one way. That's the true beauty of art, and what makes it more democratic than people might think. One family might buy a mass-market print of a Monet water lily because they think it looks pretty. Someone else might buy a reproduction of a Warhol soup can because they think it makes them look hip or cultured or smart. Others collect art because it allows them to recall an experience or time they want to be reminded of. Art need not be complicated or abstruse, just personal. One can even say that something like Serrano's Piss Christ has value simply because it creates a reaction. It's never going to have the universal appeal of a Monet or Degas, but it does cause people to think and react, or not think and get angry. Either way, it brings out emotions.
It's a "tree falls in the forest" kind of question: its main purpose is to make the person asking it look smart; no answer is required.
There's a lot of Buddhist scholars who might take exception to your belief about the usefulness of a koan.
And just how would such a "law" be enforced anyhow?
Right now it's solely being enforced by the Law of Gravity. I'm afraid, despite how necessary DARPA's proposal is, that it will be subsequently governed by the Law of Diminishing Returns.
I wonder if they included the idea that frequently it is the copycat that takes off, while the originator languishes in obscurity.
First Mover Disadvantage is usually considered in simulations like this.
"Why don't animals today get bigger and bigger today?"
Haven't you been to the mall recently? As a population, humans are getting a *LOT* wider...
FTFY.